Sounds of Earth

Hey Internet-types. more than a year ago I began working on a story called Sounds of Earth, which would be a graphic novel. In my comic book scripting class, I decided to use this story for my submissions packet to send to publishing companies. (I may be posting the submissions packet on here in its entirety at some point).

SO. First of all, Bill Plympton drew his dog in my sketchbook:



So now this sketchbook is even more priceless than before. WOOHOO!!!

ANYway, Sounds of Earth. In a very short summary, the plot concerns Helix Ramchanda and his dealing with invading aliens and a certain adorable community theater actress named Rae.

Here is a concept drawing that went with the submissions packet.



And here are the main character sketches (all with their lovely submissions packet heading). some of the names have changed as the story has evolved, but they're still pretty much the same people.





I've gone back through and found the few posts here that deal with the work I did on this story a year ago and tagged them "sounds of earth graphic novel". I'll need to do even more sample work for it to send it to other companies, but hopefully someone funds me for it!!! *crosses fingers*

Helix Construction

continuing work on Helix Strafflegrass's design. thought it might be interesting to see some of the craziness that this is for animation.

this is a construction drawing; basically you show the character's proportions and build him out of basic shapes because this makes things easier when drawing from different weird angles. it has to be very detailed- as Jacques says, if you handed this off to an animation team in Korea would they understand it? :)

Ly'rae Clack

Ly'rae Clack is her name, musical theater is her game. also cashier at Walgreens.

Jacques had a lot to critique on these, but a LOT more for the Helix Strafflegrass designs i did as well; and Helix is the one i'm gonna keep working on i think so i'll just post Ly'rae for the moment. :)